CURRICULUM VITAE Anthony Bond Born UK, 1944 Academic Continuing Examiner for masters and doctoral candidates at several Australian Universities. 2003-2006 Investigator for a major ARC project Ethical Globalism: changing strategies of political critique and intervention in curatorial practice after 1989 administered by UNSW. 1999-2001 Associate investigator for a major ARC SPIRT research project in conjunction with University of Sydney, Macquarie University and NAVA 1995-1999 Doctoral Candidate at University of Western Australia 1974 B.Ed.(Hons.) University of London, Institute of Education 1970-1974 Fine Art and Philosophy of Education University of London (Maria Grey College) 1964-1965 Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford 1963-1964 Sculpture (p/t) Sir John Cass 1962-63 Pre-Diploma of Art and Design Isleworth Polytechnic
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C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
Anthony Bond
Born UK, 1944
Academic
Continuing
Examiner for masters and doctoral candidates at several Australian Universities.
2003-2006 Investigator for a major ARC project Ethical Globalism: changing
strategies of political critique and intervention in curatorial practice after 1989
administered by UNSW.
1999-2001 Associate investigator for a major ARC SPIRT research project in
conjunction with University of Sydney, Macquarie University and NAVA
1995-1999 Doctoral Candidate at University of Western Australia
1974 B.Ed.(Hons.) University of London, Institute of Education
1970-1974 Fine Art and Philosophy of Education University of London (Maria
Grey College)
1964-1965 Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford
1963-1964 Sculpture (p/t) Sir John Cass
1962-63 Pre-Diploma of Art and Design Isleworth Polytechnic
Employment
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2013 to present
Free lance writer and curator
1994 to 2013
Director Curatorial, Head Curator, International Art, and Curator of Modern
Western and contemporary International Art AGNSW
1998-1999
Artistic Director Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. (Part time leave from
AGNSW)
1993-94
Curator of Modern Western and contemporary International Art AGNSW
1984-1993
Curator of Contemporary Art AGNSW
1991-1993
Artistic Director The Biennale of Sydney
(on 50% leave from the Art Gallery of NSW)
1981-1984
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Assistant Director - Professional
1978-1981
Wollongong City Gallery, NSW, Australia
Director
Honorary Positions
Current positions:
Member of the Establishment committee at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
2008-12
International advisor to Echigo Tsumari Triennial Japan
Treasurer for AICA (international association of art critics Australian branch)
Member of the Council for the Power Foundation, Sydney University since 2001
2001 -2008
Member of the Board of Biennale of Sydney 2000-2006 currently chair of the
exhibitions and selection sub-committees.
Member of Executive of Art Association of Australia and NZ since 1997
Assessor Australian Research Council Grants in the category of Fine Arts since
1995.
Past positions:
Chairman of The Australian Centre for Photography 1993 to 2000.
Member of the ARCO Madrid steering committee for The Australia Council
1999-2000
Member of the International Committee for Construction and Process.
1998 & 2000
Member of Helen Lampriere travelling Scholarship selection Committee.
1998, 2002 and 2003
Member of China Town Sculpture Commission.
1998
Member of ACGA International advisory committee 1996-2001 .
Member of Academic Review Committee at COFA University of NSW 1997.
Member of selection panel for 200 Gertrude St /Los Angeles exchange.
1995 to 1998
Member of the University of Western Sydney Nepean Art History Advisory Panel
1984-1988
Member of the Curatorium of the Biennale of Sydney
1984-1987
Member of Board of Museum Studies, University of Sydney
1983-1984
Chairman of the Festival of Perth Visual Arts Committee
1980-1984
Member of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Deputy Chair from
1983-1984
1979-1980
Member of the Board of the Art Galleries Directors’ Council
1978-1981
Chairman of the Regional Galleries Association of NSW
Curated exhibitions
2019
Valery Wens Banyuwangi: an exhibition at Palazzo Mora in Venice
Ken Unsworth Macquettes at Wollongong City Gallery
2017 Landmarks - The idea of landscape, conceptual art drawn from Art Gallery of NSW and
Kaldor collections. First shown at Blue Mountains Cultural Center Katoomba then touring
to Tamworth Regional Gallery and Murry Art Museum Albury.
2015
Performance and related documentation as a MAP exhibition project Mt Tomah
2014-15
Curator of Mike Parr: The Ghost who talks for GAA Palazzo Mora Venice as part of
the 2015 Biennale of Venice.
2012 -13
Curator of Francis Bacon: Five Decades 17/11/12 to 24/3/13
Curate and install second hang of new level 2 galleries for June 2012.
2011
Install Kaldor Family collection and AGNSW contemporary collections
2010
curator of 40 years of John Kaldor Projects on level 2
2009
Oscar Munoz Biographias AGNSW level 2 programme.
2008
Mike Parr The Tilted Stage TMAG and Detached galleries Hobart November 2008
to February 2009
Bill Viola Love Death: The Tristan project April 2008
2007
Jon Rose The Ball Project November 2007
Anselm Kiefer an exhibition for White Cube and Royal Academy London January
2007 & AGNSW May 2007
2006
Mike Parr The Beuys Tree Project, AMERIKA AGNSW May 2006
2005-6
Self Portrait: Renaissance to contemporary tracing evolving modes of
representation and understanding of self hood from the inception of the genre to the
late 20th century. National Portrait Gallery London October 2005 and AGNSW
February 2006. co-curated with Joanna Woodall at Courtauld Institute London.
2005
Wolfgang Laib Balnaves Foundation project
Jeppe Hein, Neon Wall
2004
Jon Rose Fence project at AGNSW
Mike Parr and Adam Geczy The Mass Psychology of Fascism AGNSW
2002
Ernesto Neto project & commission at AGNSW.
Tracey Emin project AGNSW.
2000
AGNSW International fun, fun five, an exhibition of five artists from Africa.
1999
TRACE. Inaugural Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art UK, September 1999
1998
AGNSW TRANSIT an exhibition for SOCOG a Sea Change.
AGNSW Ken Unsworth, jointly curated with Michael Wardell
1997
AGNSW BODY, an exhibition which develops a view of realism in modern art as it
is manifested through works relating to the body. 13 September to 16 November
1997.
AGNSW Tony Cragg, toured to Brisbane, and Wellington NZ.
1995
AGNSW Fred Cress, Paintings 1988-1995 - touring to 3 regional galleries
AGNSW Through a Glass Darkly, The Inaugural Guinness Contemporary Art
Project
AGNSW Peter Hill Superfictions, (installation)
Africus 95
Johannesburg Biennale Mistaken Identities, a component of Africus 95
1994
AGNSW Alex Rizkalla, The Accursed Share, (installation)
AGNSW Edgar Heap of Birds (residency and installation)
AGNSW Mike Parr, The Bridge, (performance for sculpture and choir)
AGNSW Derek Kreckler, White Pointer, (sound installation)
AGNSW Julie Rrap, Rise and Fall, (installation)
The Biennale of Sydney
1992/93
The Boundary Rider, The 9th Biennale of Sydney 50% secondment
1991
AGNSW Three Installations (project show)
AGNSW Anish Kapoor (residency and installation)
AGNSW Danny Matthys (installation)
AGNSW Wim Delvoye (installation)
AGNSW Bette Mifsud, Mute (installation)
AGNSW Arthur Wicks, Machina Persona (project show)
1990
AGNSW Ulrike Rosenback, Zenhocher energetisches Phanomen, (residency and
installation)
AGNSW Christo (Retrospective) - joint curator
AGNSW Denis Del Favero, Diario per una Vita Nuova, a multimedia installation
for Carnivale
AGNSW Patrick Heron, (residency and exhibition)
AGNSW Steven Campbell, (residency and installation)
AGNSW Tony Cragg, (residency and installation for The Biennale of Sydney)
AGNSW Richard Wentworth (residency and installation for The Biennale of
Sydney)
1989
AGNSW Australian Perspecta, (A biennial survey of Australian art) jointly curated
with Assistant Curator, Victoria Lynn.
AGNSW Yellow House (reconstruction and retrospective exhibition)
AGNSW Peter Cripps, Namelessness, performance and installation - a collaboration
with the University of Tasmania
AGNSW Paula Dawson, Eidola Suite (installation)
AGNSW Antony Gormley, A Field for the Art Gallery of NSW and A Room for
the Great Australian Desert (residency and installation)
AGNSW Mindscapes, (thematic project show)
AGNSW Michael Johnson (selected retrospective) and tour to 4 venues; assisted by
Victoria Lynn
AGNSW Living Paintings, (performance) - in conjunction with the Festival of
Perth
AGNSW Alison Wilding (residency and installation)
1988
AGWA, Frankfurt and Stuttgart Kunstvereins Bicentennial Perspecta
AGNSW Stelarc, Amplified Body Third Hand (performance and multimedia
installation) assisted by Victoria Lynn.
AGNSW Colin Offord, Lyre Bird Suite, (performance)
1987
AGNSW Australian Perspecta (a Biennial of Australian art)
AGNSW Surface for Reflexion part 1 and Surface for Reflexion part 2, A two
part project show and tour to 4 venues
AGNSW Dennis del Favero, Linea del Fuoco, (installation) for Carnivale
1986
Five Video Installations for the First Australian Video Festival
1985
AGNSW Australian Perspecta, (a biennial survey of Australian art)
a selected component toured to 8 venues in Australia; and four components were
commissioned from guest curators)
AGNSW The British Show, jointly curated with Bill Wright, toured to 5 venues in
Australia and New Zealand
AGNSW Project 48, a week of performance works
AGNSW Funf Vom Funften, organised the Australian tour of the exhibition
curated by René Block for Daad Gallery, Berlin
1984
AGNSW Goji Hamada, Landscape Chromasome and Magic (performance and
installation) - in conjunction with Continuum 1
AGNSW Jon Rose, Go Where From Some To (performance)
1984
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Form-Image-Sign, a Festival of Perth exhibition
Media Space (installation)
Performance programme for the Festival of Perth 1984
1983
Presence and Absence, a Festival of Perth exhibition of 5 installations on this
theme.
Audio Visual Art in Western Australia, exhibition and performances
Western Australian Paperworks, exh. cat., AGWA
Marina and Ulay, Gold found by the Artists, (performance)
Jon Rose, (performance)
Conference for the Festival of Perth
1982
Twelve Australian Painters, exhibition and tour to Queensland Art Gallery and
Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
Wollongong City Gallery
1978-1981
Impressionism in Europe and Australia
Michael Craig-Martin, (installations curated by John Buckley and toured by the Art
Galleries Directors’ Council)
B I L L B R O W N S U R V E Y
Massim artifacts, a collaboration with Harry Beren and tour to the Museum of
Victoria.
Awesome Universe (Astronomical Photography), and tour to the Museum of
Victoria and NSW regional centres.
NSW Young Contemporaries and tour to regional galleries
John Davis Survey (installations)
Ian Gentle Survey (installations)
Michael Snape Project Show
B I L L P E A S C O D 1 9 5 0 - 1 9 8 0
P A U L H I G G S P R O J E C T S H O W
8 x 7, a group project show, Norrie, Barker, Hawke.
Fred Braat (project for the Festival of Wollongong)
Jim Denley and Peter Ready, Music Sculpture, part 1 & 2.
Colin Offord and Ronaldo, (performance)
Selected Publications
2019 A radical Iconography of the Violin: The Art of the Possible and the Realms of the
Improbable.
published in Contemporarey Music Review Vol. 37, No. 4, 292-312 Routledge
2018 Ken Unsworth – a major monograph
Published ARTAND Foundation Sydney. Launched August 2018 at AGNSW
2017 Rodchenko: Composition for Call of the Avant Garde at Heide Museum and Art Gallery
Melbourne 2017
Two entries for Alex Rizkalla: Praxis Edited by Julie Davis and distributed by Books at
Manic Melbourne 2017.
Reflection/reach and Reflection/feather essay on Hilarie Mais for MCA Sydney 2017
2016 British Sculpture Abroad Essay published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
London and Yale Centre for British Studies New Haven 2016.
The violin in art an essay for Jon Rose exhibition of The Rosenberg Museum at Carriage
works Sydney 2016
Artists in the Blue Mountains Art Monthly 2016
Interview with Mike Parr for Art Almanac to coincide with the NGA exhibition
Foreign Looking 2016
2015
The idea of Art: collecting international contemporary art at AGNSW published New South Press UNSW 2015
2014
Ken Unsworth: Conjuring art Art Monthly August 2014 no 272.
Essay for ‘Desire’ catalogue Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Essay on Ken Unsworth for Scenic World
2013
Art and Australia interview with Juliana Engberg re forthcoming Biennale of
Sydney
Francis Bacon articles for Studio International, Craft Arts international and Look
Magazine AGNSW
2012
‘Francis Bacon: Five Decades’, editor and author of introduction and separate essays
on each of the five decades. November 2012.
‘Swapping public and private’ essay on Tatsuo Nishi for Cultural Hijak:
Rethinking Intervention Ed Ben Parry with Myriam Tahir and Sally Medlyn,
Liverpool University Press2012.
Review Susan Best Visualising Feeling: affect and the feminine avant-garde for Art and Australia ‘Level 2 rehang june 2012’ for Look magazine May edition 2012.
2011
Ken Unsworth, “As I crossed the bridge of Dreams” Art And Australia Essays and artists pages in The Kaldor Family collection handbook pub AGNSW
May 2011
John Beard greets the Spinx co-authored monograph with Dr Stephen Bann for
Hardie Grant Melbourne 2011.
2010
Contributing author for 40 years of Kaldor projects book published by AGNSW
Rodney Pople catalogue essay for Australian galleries September 2010
Paul Selwood catalogue text for Maitland regional gallery (September) 2010
Catalogue essay on Abdullah Syed for his catalogue Buzzing to be published by
V.M.Art Gallery Karachi in Pakistan 2010
Denise Green book published by Macmillan Press 2010
2009
Recalling Bob Law an essay for a book on Bob Law published by Ridinghouse
press London November 2009
Claire Healy and Sean Cordiero essay for Venice catalogue June 2009
How recent developments in self-portraiture mimic the history of the genre. Exit
express magazine Madrid, Spain April 2009 #43 pp30-33.
John Kaldor projects 1969-2009 Art and Australia. May 2009.
John Kaldor projects 1969-2009 exhibition essay for the anniversary exhibition
AGNSW October 2009. Published by John Kaldor foundation.
Oscar Munoz Biografias Look Magazine
Oscar Munoz Biografias Level 2 brochure
2008
Mike Parr Cartesian Corpse essay for the catalogue of The Tilted Stage TMAG
and Detached 2008-9
Rodney Pople, review for Art World Magazine issue 5 October/November 2008
Being before and beyond the frame. Catalogue essay for Face to Face Exhibition
tour opening Newcastle Region Gallery 5/9/08
Phantom Clubs co author essay in the catalogue Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
Blind Spots jpr/ringier for the exhibition at SMBA Stedelijk Amsterdam, pp 169-
186
Why Art Matters Art Influence e-magazine 1st edition
Mike Parr article for Art World Magazine
The fall into paradise Bill Viola projects in association with John Kaldor projects;
Look Magazine April 2008.
Doris Salcedo new acquisition Untitled 2007 Look Magazine May 2008.
Collection handbook International and Modern European entries
2007
Monumenta: Kiefer in Paris 2007 Craft Arts Australia No 71 2007
European Summer 2007 Art and Australia December 2007
Photography Handbook AGNSW chapter on 1920s and 1930s and artist’s entries
Anselm Kiefer Fields of reference essay for the catalogue ‘Anselm Kiefer:
Aperiatur Terra’ White Cube London, Royal Academy London and AGNSW
January 2007
Anselm Kiefer in the Studio Art and Australia March 2007
Anselm Kiefer Aperiatur terra Look Magazine AGNSW May 2007
Anselm Kiefer Article for Goethe magazine Kultur April 2007
Artist’s entries for Tony Cragg, Michael Craig Martin, Gerhard Richter and Andy
Warhol for the UBS collection exhibition An incomplete world at AGNSW May
2007
2006
Lisa Roet review for Art Monthly Australia, March 2006
Performing Bodies Art and Australia March 2006, vol 43 No 3 author.
Contemporary Collection Handbook AGNSW. Contributing two chapters with
artists entries. September 2006.
Twenty, Sherman gallery 20th anniversary book April 2006 interview with William
Wright.
2005
Catalogue for Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary NPG London and
AGNSW Sydney. Co-editor and contributing author
Inside Australia by Anthony Gormley, Thames and Hudson London. Contributing
author
Wolfgang Laib the third Balnaves sculpture project AGNSW catalogue editor and
author.
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, contributing author, University gallery at FGine
arts centre, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Kunsthalle Fridericanum
Kassel.
Interview with Jim Samios The Middle East Times issue No 186-187 April 2005
2004
Imagining the void a feature article for Linq volume 31 No.2, James cook
University Queensland ISSN 0817-458x
Montien Boonma a review of the exhibition at the Asia Society NY published in
Art and Australia Vol 42, No2.
Ken Unsworth a review of his exhibition at Boutwell Draper in Art & Australia vol
42, No 2.
Contributing author, Tracking shot, Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, Published by
Arte Distrito 4 S.A. Madrid ISBN 84-933422-6-2.
Terror of the void a published paper in RLA conference proceedings The Dark side
RLA press 2004 ISBN 1 86487 623 9
The Body-The Nude for the book Il Nudo, Artificio Skira Firenze Italy ISBN 88-
8491 832-4.
2003
Incidents catalogue essay for Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky AGNSW
Ken Unsworth catalogue essay Boutwell Draper gallery.
Contributing author to Knot Naught: Alasdair MacLennan, a retrospective
published by Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast
2002
Co-author of Brian Blanchflower From the Generative Eye: Paintings 1990 –2001
catalogue 5/4/02 Curtin University Perth,
University of Technology Sydney Contributions to the UTS collection catalogue
AGNSW Interview with Richard Grayson on the Biennale of Sydney for Look
magazine April
COFA Uni NSW web publication of Conducting Bodies launch address.
AGNSW Ernesto Neto catalogue entry
2001
Boutwell Draper Gallery Sydney catalogue text for Richard Goodwin exhibition,
AGNSW Reflections of Venice article in October issue of Look magazine
2000-2001
Gilbert and George an article for Look Magazine AGNSW
various articles and interviews for international journals including Arconoticas
Madrid.
1999
The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary International Art Editor and major
contributor to the catalogue Trace.
1998
In the public Domain, an article for TAASA Review Vol 7 No 3 Sept 1998
Bookman Press Melbourne & AGNSW, Editor and contributor to Ken Unsworth a
survey of projects 1975-1998.
Art and Australia Review of Pictura Britanica September 1998.
1997
Quelles Memoires Pour L’Art contemporain? Presses Universitaires de Rennes
isbn 2-86847-270-2
Hannover Kunstverein ,Catalogue introduction on Dr Christiane Mobus.
Bookman Press, Melbourne and The Art Gallery of NSW Editor and author BODY
exh. cat. September 1997. Awarded the inaugural Power Bequest prize for the
best book of art history and theory through the AAANZ AGM in Wellington
NZ December 1999.
The Art Gallery of NSW Editor and author. Tony Cragg exhibition catalogue
The Art Gallery of NSW Introduction. Material Immaterial exh. cat.
1996
Bede Gallery, Jarrow, England Introduction. A Sense of Place, exh. cat.,.
“The Biennale of Sydney”, Poliester, Mexico City vol 5 no 16 Fall 1996.
1995
Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa “Mistaken Identities”, Africus, exh. cat.,.
AGNSW Fred Cress paintings 1988-1995, exh. cat., and 3 touring venues.
AGNSW Through a Glass Darkly, exh. cat.
Various articles for Look, Art Gallery Society of NSW, 1994-1995 But is it art?;
Yves Klein; Anselm Kiefer; Reflections on the Neil Manton lecture - Giles Auty;
Women artists from the collection; “Richard Goodwin”; “Through a Glass
Darkly”; “Fred Cress”.
1992-1993
Biennale of Sydney The Boundary Rider, , exh. cat., AGNSW and other venues.
Various articles and interviews re: Biennale of Sydney for: Eyeline; Photofile;
;Artlink; Flashart; Kunstforum; Parkett and local news media.
Introduction in Ed. Christopher Allen, Richard Goodwin, Sydney: Oliver Freeman
Editions, 1992, pp.8-9.
1991
Chicago Art Fair Catalogue essay. John Beard,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art catalogue essay. Nigel Helyer,
AGNSW, Introduction. 3 Installations, exh. cat.
1990
Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Let Them Eat Cake, on the work of
Victor Majzner,
AGNSW Introduction., The Yellow House 1970-72, exh. cat.
Craftsman’s House Sydney “The Survival of Realism in the Avant Garde”, Recent
Australian Painting 1990.
AGNSW Introduction. British Print making of the 1960ies and 1970ies, exh. cat.
1989
AGNSW Introduction. Australian Perspecta 1989, exh. cat.
AGNSW Foreword. Michael Johnson Paintings 1968-1988, exh. cat.
Interview, Eyeline, March 1989, # eight, pp.8-11.
AGNSW Mindscapes and John Beard, Mindscapes, exh. cat.,
AGNSW A Viewpoint 1981-84, Brian Blanchflower Works 1961-1989, exh. cat., ,
pp.73-81.
1988
Michael Milburn Gallery, Brisbane catalogue essay. Mike Parr, exh. cat.
Biennale of Sydney catalogue essay. Hilarie Mais, exh. cat.
Biennale of Sydney - preview in Craft Australia, 1988
Catalogue essay. Contemporary Australian Art to China, on the work of Brian
Blanchflower, 1988.
University of Tasmania, introduction to Namelessness, exh. cat. for work of Peter
Cripps,
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery Introduction, Arthur Wicks Project, exh. cat.,.
Chameleon, Hobart catalogue essay. Dreams and Other Signs, exh. cat. for work of
Brad Buckley,.
1987
AGNSW The Australian Bicentennial Perspecta, exh. cat.
Craft Australia Two Realms - Ken Unsworth Sculpture, , Spring 1985/3, pp.49-51.
Craft Australia Bob Law in The British Show 1985-86”, Summer 1986/4, pp.84-85.
Australian and International Art Monthly Anselm Kiefer, Glaube Hoffnung Liebe,
July 1987, No. 2, p.11.
Performance Space The Intruder, an introduction to Euan Upstan, Production, ,
1987.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation reviews of the following books, New Art II;
AGNSW Introduction, Robert Jacks, exh. cat., Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney.
The Biennale of Sydney, Anne Graham, Origins Originality + Beyond, , exh. cat.,
AGNSW, p.130.
Australian Video Festival catalogue essay.
Macquarie Gallery, Sydney Introduction, John Beard, exh. cat.
1985
AGNSW Introduction. The selection of the Exhibition and artist entries, The
British Show, exh. cat., , pp.11-16
AGNSW Introduction, and Mainly Sculpture, Australian Perspecta 1985, exh. cat.,
p. 5 and pp.17-67.
Artscribe UK, Means of Escape, Steven Willats, 1985.
Daad Gallery, Berlin Introduction., 5/5 Funf Vom Funften, exh. cat., , pp.6-17.
1984
AGWA Form. Image. Sign, Biannual Survey of Contemporary Australian Art No
3, exh. cat.
1983
AGWA, catalogue essay. Presence and Absence - Biannual Survey of
Contemporary Australian Art no 1 Installation, exh. cat., pp.3-6.
Festival of Perth introduction, Henry Moore Major lithographs and Etchings 1969-
1982, exh. cat. AGWA, in association with Galerie Dusseldorf.
AGWA introduction, Audio Visual Installations in Western Australia, exh. cat.,.
AGWA Stanley Spencer. Christ in the Wilderness, exh. cat.
AGWA Twelve Australian Painters, exh. cat.
Public Lectures and Conference Papers and Presentations, Regional visits
2016 Francis Bacon: five decades several lectures at AGNSW and Sydney Universities.
Lectures at BMCC on Landmarks exhibition and at subsequent venues.
2014
Presentation at ACUADS VCA Melbourne October 2014 What impact are higher degree research programmes having on emerging trends and themes in contemporary art? Selected for publication 2015. Lecture on Ken Unsworth at Scenic World Katoomba
Discussion at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre with Mike Parr re: exhibition ‘Desire’
2013
Multiple lectures and guided tours of Francis Bacon: five decades for public at
AGNSW and at universities of NSW, Sydney, Wollongong, National Art School.
Lecture at Bath University UK ‘What’s it all about then?’ contemporary art and
why it matters
2012
Joseph Beuys paper for Usyd Joseph Beuys symposium May 2012
Lecture: Performing Bodies at UNSW
Contemporary art in Japan Orion lectures I and II April 2012
‘Picasso and Bacon’ late night for Picasso March 2012 AGNSW
Richard Serra context, Minimalism and its legacies, AGNSW March 2012.
2011
‘Conservation of Contemporary art’ paper for AICCM
Lecture: Performing Bodies at UNSW
German art after 1945 at NAS
Conversation with Richard Long at AGNSW May 2011
Kaldor and AGNSW collections for level 2 in 2011 given at: Power Institute USYD,
SCA at USYD, UNSW COFA, NAS, Newcastle University,
2010
Exh launch: Ken UInsworth Macquettes at Australian Gallerues July 2010
Exh Launch: Paolozi and Kitaj at McKay Regional gallery July 2010
Public lecture on Paolozzi and Kitaj at McKay July 2010
EXH Launch: Paula Dawson survey at Macquaie University July 2010
Chair of session at the AAANZ conference Darwin the art of evolution at AGNSW
September 2010
Lecture: ‘Combining two differently constructed collections’, Institute of Art launch,
UMelb March 2010
Lecture: ‘Antony Gormley’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Carriageworks May 2010
Exh launch: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, 4A Gallery May 2010
Lecture: Performing Bodies at UNSW September 2010
2009
Lecture: 'In Honour of St Luke' AAANZ conference Canberra ANU November
2009
Exh launch: sculpture commission, CDU November 2009
Exh launch: Ernesto Neto, Port Macquarie Glasshouse Gallery December 2009
Exh Launch Arthur Wicks, Wagga Wagga December 2009
Lectures: ‘Kaldor projects’, Sydney College of the Arts August 2009, USYD,
National Art School September 2009, COFA October 2009, Power Inst USYD
September 2009
Lecture: ‘Performing bodies’, COFA August 2009
Lecture: ‘The body in art’, Newcastle University September 2009
Lecture: ‘AGNSW collection’, Darwin National Library November 2009
SCA open Goethe exhibition of ‘Ten German photographers’ 13/5/09
Cofa Launch Paul Carter’s book ‘Dark Writing’ 30/4/09
Spaces and Sites conference AGNSW chair session and welcome
RMIT gallery open exhibition and newly renovated space 16/4/09
Mt Tomah judge Breen sculpture commission 1/4/09
TMAG and University of Tasmania to give a talk and participate in a discussion
with Mike Parr and Klaus Biesenbach from MoMA NY. 28/2/09
Judge Randwick Council sculpture commission 13/2/09
Judge and launch a sculpture commission for John Hunter Hospital Newcastle
11/2/09
Participant in a symposium at Albright Knox Museum Buffalo Why Biennales?
January 2009
2008
Visit Casula powerhouse for a meeting with Nick Tsoutas and Phil George re:
possible collaboration on the surf board project. 19/12/08
AAANZ deliver paper in Brisbane “ Policies for collecting Contemporary art’
6/12/08
Launch the 30th anniversary of Wollongong City Gallery 4/12/08
TMAG opening and performance in conjunction with the Mike Parr project The
Tilted Stage 22/11/08
Opened Art and the archive conference and exhibition at Newcastle University
7/10/08
Lecture Why art matters for Probus club Blackheath 23/10/08
Open the Blackheath art Gallery 5/10/08
Lecture on Contemporary International collection at Hastings Port Macquarie
regional gallery 26/9/08
Launch Seed project exhibition at Jenolan Caves 13/9/08
Judge and launch ‘Sculpture in the vines’ Hunter Valley 12/9/08
Lecture on Contemporary International Collection of AGNSW at Newcastle
University 10/9/08
Judge Imagine award for MGNSW 11/9/08
Lecture on Contemporary International Collection of AGNSW at Newcastle
University 10/9/08
Presentation on The influences of Picasso in contemporary art at GOMA
Queensland Picasso exhibition 6/9/08
Launch Face to Face exhibition at Newcastle regional Gallery 5/9/08
Lecture Art as physical object , Conservation and (re)presentation University of
Sydney 4/9/08
Presentation on The influences of Picasso in contemporary art at GOMA
Queensland Picasso exhibition 6/9/08
Launch Face to Face exhibition at Newcastle regional Gallery 5/9/08
Lecture Art as physical object , Conservation and (re)presentation University of
Sydney 4/9/08
Judge St Joseph’s annual art exhibition and open the exhibition 28/8/08
Lecture on Contemporary International collection at Wollongong City Gallery
27/8/08
Globalisation in contemporary art at USYD Art History and Theory 25/8/08
Performing Bodies Cofa UNSW 25and 26/8/08
Presentation to supporters of Gosford Regionl Gallery then cook them lunch as part
of the exhibition Rooms of engagement. 23/8/08
Launch Ben Quilty exhibition at Newcastle University Gallery 22/8/08
Speech at Finnisage of Mike Parr’s exhibition at Anna Schwartz Carriage works
gallery 16/8/08
Floor talk for Newcastle University Post grads in BoS 15/8/08
Judge and deliver award for Kings school art prize 14/8/08
Chair session at OZCO Biennale forum AGNSW 20/6/08
Paper given at MCA forum on censorship 12/6/08
Discussant at SBS insight programme 3/6/08
Paper at St Josephs college on Contemporary International collection 30/5/08
Paper at Cofa UNSW on Contemporary International collection 6/5/08
Campbelltown art centre to attend Ai Weiwei opening 1/5/08
SCA usyd paper on Contemporary International collection 30/4/08
Cofa UNSW judge Jenny Birt award for Drawing and Painting 28/4/08
Paper on Relevance of wood firing today at Sturt wood fired conference 18/4/08
Open Layers marks tracks at Orange regional gallery 11/4/08
Open Denise Green at Liverpool street gallery 3/4/08
2007
Judge and open Gold Coast art prize 1/12/07
Forum participant at Danks street depot 10/10/07
This summer in Europe Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo 21/9/07
Conservation and interpretation lecture for USYD 13/9/07
Freud: About men lecture for Newcastle region Gallery 11/9/07
Why Art Matters Lecture at Duneden University NZ 7/9/07
National Art School Lunchtime lecture and post grad seminar on Biennales 5/9/07
Performing Bodies Lecture at Cofa repeated 20/8/07 and 21/8/07
Venice and Documenta Lecture for Cofa UNSW 14/8/07
Launch Larter Family Values at Casuala Power House. 11/8/07
European Summer lecture at Newcastle University 1/8/07
Heaven and Earth: Anselm Kiefer, Wollongong City Gallery 25/7
Speaker at Forum at Sherman Galleries with Michael Landy 21/7
Site specificity Grounding art in the local. AAANZ conference at AGNSW and
Chair opening session. 13-14/7
Anselm Kiefer Newcastle Uni post grads, April 07
Why Art Matters Australian print council at Tweed Heads May 2007 also at:
Newcastle Uni
Anselm Kiefer Cofa UNSW, May 07
Anselm Kiefer Floortalks at AGNSW May 2007 to USYD to Gallery Guides at Art
after Hours Newcastle Uni Meadowbank Tafe,
Anselm Kiefer Lectures at AGNSW Public 18/5 Secondary Teachers programme
22/5 Gallery Guides 23/4.
Anselm Kiefer Lecture at Tweed Heads regional gallery February 4th 2007
Anselm Kiefer National art school Sydney March 2007,
Anselm Kiefer Newcastle Uni post grads, April 07
Why Art Matters Australian print council at Tweed Heads May 2007 also at:
Newcastle Uni
2006
Why Art Matters a lecture at Kyoto and Nigata Universities Japan July 2006
Performing Bodies lecture at cofa UNSW 21st and 22nd August
Why Critics need Curatorial training paper given at the AICA annual congress in
Paris October 2006
Modernist concerns applied to pre modern contexts Chair this session at AAANZ
conference Monash university Melbourne December 2006
The History of the collection AGNSW, NSW Teacher’s orientation day. 21/4/06
Boundary Rider and Trace at Cofa UNSW 2/5/06
Self Portraits: Renaissance to Contemporary guest lectures in addition to papers
given at AGNSW symposium and to special groups: Newcastle University,
Queensland University, Sydney University, National art school Sydney
Conversation with Mike Parr MCA in association with the Parr print exhibition
2005
Performing the self National Portrait Gallery London, Self Portrait Symposium,
November 2005
Interpretation or (re)presentation AAANZ annual conference Sydney University
Presentation on Wolfgang Laib at ACCA Melbourne 1st June 2005
Collection policy and process paper for National art school 10/8/05
Aesthetics of Engagement AGNSW contemporary series
Self Portrait Renaissance to Contemporary Wollongong Region Gallery 18th May
2005 repeated at Newcastle University on 27th July 2005
Contemporary museum design Launceston University Tasmania 6th April 2005
Presentation on Stieg Persson at Depot Gallery Sydney 10th May 2005
Presentation on John Davis at Sherman gallery 7th May 2005
2004
1961 and all that the aesthetics of engagement paper for AAANZ annual conference
Auckland December 2004
Changing role of Curatorpaper and discussion at USYD for Museums Australia
programme.29th September 2004
Conservation and Interpretation Lecture at USYD 15th September 2004
Designing contemporary museums Lecture for Architecture faculty USYD 9th
August 2005
Performing Bodies Lecture at cofa UNSW 23rd August 2004
Aesthetics of engagement AGNSW contemporary series
Gustave Courbet down and dirty – political revolutionary? AGNSW Society
Francis Bacon Contemporary series AGNSW
Survey exhibitions a forum at Newcastle Region Gallery
Self portraits in the making colloquium at NPG London
2003
Kiefer/ Beuys at National art school and at Newcastle University
Biennale Strategies for National Art School post Grads
Interpretation and conservation of contemporary art for Usyd
Aboriginal art into the mainstream ANU CCR
Bonnard lecture programme AGNSW
Global art after 1989 at the symposium for Echigo Tsumari Triennial Japan.
Updated version of Global art for Istanbul Biennial.
Performing Bodies at COFA UNSW
Floor talk at MCA on Fernando Cardosa
Gericault and Delacroix sketching toward Modernism AGNSW
2002
Newcastle Region gallery public address on the collection display “Mindscapes”
Curtin University Brian Blanchflower Sensing the void.
AGNSW Evolving collections and their display and interpretation.
AGNSW Beuys, Kiefer, Clemente the expressive image
Newcastle University occasional address at 2002 graduation ceremony.
AGNSW International Biennales
Newcastle Region Gallery Biennale strategies at Museum to street conference.
University of Sydney Dept Art History, Collection conservation and interpretation
University of Sydney Museum Studies dept Collection policy and strategies.
Biennale of Sydney chair AICA forum.
2001
Newcastle University Permeable membranes a paper for Conference on painting.
AAANZ AGM Melbourne The Future of contemporary collections
Cofa Uni NSW Australian art to the World
Cofa Uni NSW Collections management
Cofa Uni NSW Exhibitions management
Chaired AAANZ Conducting Bodies conference committee and a session of the
conference.
Chulalankhorn Univerity Museum studies Collections Management
Chulalankhorn Univerity Museum studies Exhibitions management
2000
RLA Sydney University Horizon transcendent visions Turner to Turrell , also
versions at Newcastle University and Broken Hill Region Gallery
AGNSW society lecture Post war German Art and Newcastle University,
1999
Victoria University Wellington NZ. Interpretation or (Re)presentation,
documenting artists intentions in Museum collections, a paper for AAANZ annual
conference. John Moore's university Liverpool. Trace, a paper for the conference of
the Liverpool Biennial .
Liverpool University UK. The Index in 20th Century Art, The1999 Sydney Jones
lecture at
Chulalunkhorn University Bangkok, Trace, Lectures in preparation for The
Liverpool Biennial, January 1999.
Series of lectures at Newcastle University, Trace, Body. April 1999.
1998
ICA, London, Liverpool Biennial, Trace, October 1998.
University of South Australia A Paradigm Shift in 20th Century Art, Lecture given
at The Art Association of Australia conference September 1998
National Gallery of Australia Chair of seminar, and presented a paper on
Anthropology and Art History, for CIMAM October 1998.
Tours and floor talks for Ken Unsworth, 2 October-15 November
AGNSW public lectures on Jacob Ruisdael, Van Gogh, The Legacy of the
Readymade.
AGNSW Realism Through the Body, Post Graduate seminar.
John Moore’s University, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool University Trace,
lectures on my preparation for Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool.
September 1998.
1997
AICA conference, Rennes, France Whose intellectual property? at the AGM
Lectures, radio and television interviews and floor talks for BODY, 13 September -
16 November 1997.
AGNSW Series of public lectures on Picasso, Vermeer, Klein.
Australian National University, chair of session and paper, ‘Anthropology and Art
History’, AAA annual conference, , October 2-3 1997.
1996
AGNSW Series of public lectures on Courbet and Duchamp.
1995
AGNSW series of three public lectures on Rembrandt; Stanley Spencer and Francis
Bacon.
Johannesburg Art Centre S.A. Aboriginal art,
Johannesburg Africus museum Biennales - a survey, Conference for the
Johannesburg Biennale.
ARX conference, Perth The New Internationalism, tested in the fire.
Victoria & Albert Museum London & Wittwatersrand University, RSA
Body, a work in progress.
1993
LaCaixa Barcelona Body/Not Body, Arts International Conference,
AGNSW British Art 1920-50, 1993.
Wittwatersrand University and University of Cape Town lecture title The Border
1991-92
University of Sydney The Boundary Rider. Lecture also given at: College of Fine
Art, University of NSW; Sydney College of the Arts, University of Western Sydney,
Nepean; Salec mink Lecture at the University of Western Australia; University of
Tasmania; University of Newcastle; Griffith University; Julian Ashton School.
1989-1990
University of Sydney; Klein, Kounellis and Kapoor. Lecture also given at: College
of Fine Arts, University of NSW; Sydney College of the Art, University of Western
